Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-08-05

neWspaper-rnan. OF course anybody
can run the shears through any news
paper he may pick up and clip out a
quantity OF matter. But when repub-
llshed will 1T make interesting reading
That is the crucial question. No, it re-
quires newspaper education and expert
ence to use the shears SO as to make
newspaper readable and interesting.
Any reader, whether familiar with
newspaper work or not, can prove this
Tor himself:by glancing over:a number
OF different papers. In one he will find
selections that will strike hia eye as in.
teresting, and on reading them he Is
not disappointed. He goes from one
piece to another and finds varied food
for the reading faculty. The selections
are varied, some of this character. and
some of another. Every class and sge
will find some piece of particular inter-
est and suited to personal characterize
les. The selections are from perhaps IS
many other different papers, the best
piece selected from each, and when to-
gether form collection of the best
newspaper work Of the day. And some
papers present most uninteresting
selection of clippings, pieces of no in
terest and which nobody reads. The
right use Of the shears IS not so easy as
the preparation of original editorial
matter. . -
A paper can impress it's constituency
with its views on this subject or on
that by the use of the shears without
printing line of original matter. This
way of persuading and arguing is fire.
quently much more effective than by
written editorial. On a good newspa-
per the shears are indeed mightier than
the pen.-Dubuque Herald. ."
There is said to be a man in Huron
who hasn't a button on his coat-they
are all in the contribution box.
The village of Huron, a few miles
north of us, has only six Jail birds,-so
says the little daily published there
what terrible wicked place 1t must
be? Solution-six saloons.-Woo nsock-
News. 80
1t issaid that the Duluth, WATERFOWL
& Pacific railroad will be CONSTRUCTED
into Woodsocket within the next year.
It is also certain that this road will
reach Mitchell via Diana. and White
Lake via Washington Springs.-Alpena
Journal.
tits fact not generally known that in
sales of $50 or less the buyer need not
pay any money down to make the salev
binding. 1t is generally thought that if
the buyer pays no money the sale is
not binding on the seller, butunder the
laws of Dakota it is.
A man named Busted hal started a
paper at Oaks in north Dakdt ia. If he is
busted now what will he be six months
hence, when the blizzard cones down
in all it's fury and the coal bills run up
as high as mercury in July? But still
there are people who do not btlleve in
predestination.
TREE KILLER. A bright green worm
ornamented with gilt minarets, which
is evoluted from cocooned egg lepos-
tied on leaves Of trees by some insect
vagabond, is eating the foliage Of our
trees with rapidity which threatens
their destruction, unless carefully
watched. The worm resembles the to-
baccoworm. Itgets to be as large as ones
middle finger and is tough. w. !. Ken
field Esq, has been hunting these var
minis off his tree claim, and has had
his hands full to master them keep
watch ofyour trees Woonsocket,I hines.
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